Large public works projects used to be the American thing. I lived in the Columbia Basin long ago and learned of the Grand Coulee dam project and it’s value for farm irrigation. The Southwest could use a new water-making technology to supply farms too, especially if global warming changes the weather patterns and dries up the southwest. If a future nuclear accident occurs it may be necessary to process water one more time. It can be useful to be prepared for radioactive waste water treatment
Evaporation and condensation in covered canals with fresh water separated from the salt and radiation (if that is technically possible) could process the Fukushima water and augment that with water pumped up from San Diego to New Mexico in a pipe using solar power. What to do about radioactive waste if it can be seperated and collected in salt sludge?
Maybe salt sludge can be recrystalized under mechanical pressure and formed into a shape useful for packing deep in an excavated salt dome-just a thought.
